Health Psychology

Topics

• The Placebo Effect: When Belief Becomes Medicine
• From Belief to Biology
• The Ethics of Placebo Prescribing
• Mindfulness Meditation
• The Nocebo Effect: When Expectation Hurts
• Inside the Stress System: From Threat to Resilience
• Decoding the Signals of Danger: Fear Circuits and the Stress Response
• Reappraising Your Stress: How Changing the Story Changes the Response
• The Biology of Burnout: Chronic Stress and the Breakdown of Recovery Systems
• Chronic Stress Can Make You Sick
• How Social Inequalities Contribute to Disease
• Using Breath to Regulate Stress
• Depression and the Mind–Body Connection
• Breaking the Negativity Bias
• Neuroplasticity: Stress, Development, and the Power to Change
• Practicing Gratitude
• Why Behaviour Change Is Hard
• How to Talk So People Want to Change
• Guiding Behaviour Change in the Clinic
• How to Live Closer to Your Values